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The need for nations / Roger Scruton.
- Title
- The need for nations / Roger Scruton.
- Author
- Scruton, Roger
- Publication
- London : Civitas, 2004.
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- Additional Authors
- Institute for the Study of Civil Society
- Description
- ix, 54 p.; 22 cm.
- Summary
- The nation state provides us with the surest model for peace, prosperity, and the defense of human rights. Is spite of this, the idea of the nation state is under attack, derided as a cause of conflict, and destined to be replaced by more "enlightened" forms of jurisdiction. This is in spite of the fact that all recent attempts to transcend the nation state into some kind of transnational political order have ended up either as totalitarian dictatorships like the former Soviet Union or as unaccountable bureaucracies like the European Union.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 51-54).
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Foreword / Robert Rowthorn -- Introduction -- Citizenship -- Membership and nationality -- Nations and nationalism -- Britain and its constituent nations -- Panglossian universalism -- Oikophobia -- The new world order -- Threats to the nation -- Overcoming the threats.
- ISBN
- 1903386330 (pbk.)
- OCLC
- 54895418
- SCSB-12575559
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library